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...nearly a century after Abraham Brower began running horse-cars along New York City's Broadway around 1830, privately owned transit systems throughout the U.S. were the only trains in town. Robber barons made fortunes on them, street traction stocks became a mainstay in widows' portfolios, and the Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running. One by one, private companies fell into public hands: Detroit...
Steinberg then switched to the University of Chicago, where he studied for a master's degree in English. He never got it, since his energies were diverted to acting in college productions. By graduation he was a mainstay of Second City, the troupe that nurtured such comic talents as Mike Nichols and Elaine May. "Then I saw Lenny Bruce," Steinberg remembers, "and he was James Joyce on a nightclub stage-not just being a buffoon, but at the top of his intelligence. That influenced...
...giving up by doing so. In 1936 he wrote to Henry Miller, "I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always feel uneasy when I get away from the ordinary world where grass is green, stones hard, etc." This belly-to-earth attitude was the mainstay of his political thought; his consciousness of the small facts of life shows up in all his pieces of reportage and analysis: although he may frankly admit that he does not understand the political situation, he never fails to include small details that make up living: the headlines on newspaper posters...
...artists, musicians and actors. In addition to Sing for Your Supper, the agency's Federal Theater Project spread the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Eugene O'Neill. The Federal Writers' Project published about 1,000 books and pamphlets; its famous American Guide Series is still a mainstay. For good or ill, the Federal Art Project revived mural painting, largely to decorate public buildings. The Federal Music Project sent jobless musicians out hunting up forgotten folk songs and presenting concerts...
Christ Wilmot, also an All-American selection, was the mainstay of the strong Crimson defense, and like messing turned in an outstanding performance in Harvard's heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Howard in Miami. He was drafted first by the New York Cosmos, who termed him "the best defenseman and the best collegiate in this crop of seniors...